Is R68.12 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. R68.12 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does R68.12 sit in the tabular list?

Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99), in the block General symptoms and signs (R50-R69).

R68.12

R68.12 — Fussy infant (baby)

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

R68.12 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for fussy infant (baby). It is valid for submission on a claim.

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Irritable infant

Risk adjustment

R68.12 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.

How R68.12 is indexed

Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to R68.12.

Fussy baby
Infant›irritable child
Irritable, irritability›infant

Related codes at this level

Codes that share R68.1. If R68.12 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about R68.12

Is R68.12 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. R68.12 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does R68.12 sit in the tabular list?: Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99), in the block General symptoms and signs (R50-R69).